Jim L

Don't the majority of Americans call themselves "Christian"? A legitimate question that this thread could ponder is if the outlook of wrestling fans is better or worse of the American public in general. IMO, it is probably about the same

Honestly, I think that primarily goal is academics is mostly lip service. Outside of FB and BB, the Ivies tend do compete well with best in the nation (similar to wrestling). Most of the high level athletes would not stand a chance at Ivy league admission without their athletic accomplishments. They may be better much better than average students compared the collegiate population as whole, but for most athletics is more important than academics They do have a few official rules like no redshirting and no grad students competing and a few specific FB rules - freshman cant play varsity (not sure if this rule is still in effect) and the FB team cant go to the FCS playoffs.

True in most sports

Something about having kids compete bring out the worst in people (along with being anonymous in the comments section). The only time I see parents acting like complete jerks are at competitions. I am, of course, the exception to this rule

Yeah, maybe wishful thinking on my part for both the wrestling community and the world at large

Best strategy is to never read the comments. There are always going to be idiots in the world whether they are truly racists or just ding-dongs who enjoy being trolls. They are the type of people who are way more likely to post something in the replies, so while the count of 4 ignorant posts out of 28 is truly a sad ratio, I would like to think the % of idiots is way less the 1% in both wrestling fans and the entire population.

Dont follow college hockey much anymore. ECAC hockey was the dominant league in the east when I was a kid (maybe the only league as well?). This was before Hockey East and it was on TV every week.

The whole Peanuts storyline that Charlie Brown is a loser that nobody likes and is constantly picked on sucks. I realized it was sh*tty as a kid in the 70s, not that I didn't always want to watch the Peanuts specials every time they were on. I present the first Peanuts trip ever:

My memory is that D1 coaches claimed that it was because D2/D3 wrestlers did not have the academic requirements to remain eligible as D1 athletes. I believe this was about the time when the NCAA started implementing minimum academics achievement in HS for athletes to qualify for D1 scholarships. Are those rules still in place? It seemed like that used to be news story every year about a top athlete struggling or not meeting standards. I think there was widespread feeling that D1 coaches did not like the prospect of losing to a lower division wrestler.

I assume they would not do this in ice hockey as the ECAC league is one of the best leagues. Pulling out would hurt both the conference and Ivy hockey. There are only 6 Ivy hockey teams and like wrestling it does not make sense to me to separate from their existing leagues

Seems like a bad thing for the EIWA, the Ivies and wrestling. How NQs are going to come out of a conference with 6 teams with only one being a nationally prominent school. Doesn't hurt the borderline NQ who now likely has to win the Ivy tournament to qualify? And likely need to beat a highly ranked Cornell guy to do so.

Didn't everyone have a kid's table at Thanksgiving?

Inspiration for a whole generation of coaches

Yeah. While we're are at let's all admit that every Charlie Brown special also is trash. The fact that I loved them all as a kid just shows how crappy TV was back in the day. **The jazzy theme song holds up though

I was just at a Holiday party and we ended talking about what a terrible movie Rudolph is. The complete shunning of Rudolf (not just by the a-hole Reindeer, but also Santa and Dasher) plus he is only redeemed because of some silly concept that his nose is bright enough to see through the worst winter storm in history.

RPI did win a D1 hockey title in the mid 80s. Lake Superior State also had some championship hockey teams

A Christmas Carol. Many great versions, not only the greatest Christmas story ever, but in the running for the greatest story ever. Discussion officially over

I don't think any other sports had this rule. Lacrosse, like wrestling and ice hockey, have a bunch of non-D1 schools that compete in D1 in just one sport. Johns Hopkins is a D3 school who at one point had one of the best lacrosse programs in the country. Multiple non D1 schools have won NCAA D1 championships in hockey.

I am wondering why you need a special knee pad for OT

Just like they are spelled

I was explaining the FS slip rule and how I thought it was a silly rule to a judo friend who was completely unfamaliar with any wrestling rules, he could not comprehend how I thought someone should earn points if they didn't do anything. The logic of a slip rule was obvious to him. Changed my perspective

I am not going to pretend to know exactly how a correct throw is scored in FS, but it is not ridiculous to earn points in a grappling contest by putting your opponent in a danger position where he does not want to be even if he is able to avoid the worst result of the move.

Adding a rule for 5 points for grand amplitude would be awesome. Four points for feet to back would also be good.